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21 February 2005 - 10:44 pm
flight 22, terminal 26
Oh, hi. Payed $5 or 500 YEN to access the internet. I couldn't stand the lack of internet access this last couple weeks. Finally I'm on my own laptop too. Sigh. Anywho, i'm here in Japan on a 7 hour layover. I'll be proceeding to Honolulu for a couple days to visit relatives on my Mom's side. WHAT THE HECK AM I TALKING ABOUT? I've been visiting the 'motherland' for the past month. I left Feb 3rd. I'm not exactly sure when I'll be back in LA, but I'm on the way home now. I stayed with my Aunt on my Dad's side. I visited a TON of family on his side too. I also spent some quality time WITH my dad. Despite my hesitation and fears, my trip to the Filipinas turned out to be really good. I learned a lot about my family and maybe a little about myself. The Philippines is a wonderful place, it can & should get even better in the next decade. No time soon, but soon enough. I met some wonderful family members. I got to know really well some of the ones I knew, especially my Dad. If you have a motherland, and you have relatives there, I highly recommend that you go and visit. I definitly see myself going back. I don't know when, because there are a lot of "new" places that i'd be more interested in first. But I there would a routine place for me to visit, it would be the Filipinas. Ok, maybe i'll have interesting things to say about Hawaii. i don't know. It's not for another 6+ hours until I board the plane for it. Plus the flight is a good 6 hours from Japan. sige, bye. den
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31 January 2005 - 11:42 pm
omg 2004 is over....
This is a little late, I just kept forgetting to post this. But here are my favorite materialistic things from 2004: best ten albums of 2004.
1. Of Montreal - Satanic Panic
2. Interpol - Antics
3. Pinback - Summer in Abandon
4. M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
5. Stereolab - Margerine Eclipse
6. Air - Talkie Walkie
7. Wilco - A Ghost is Born
8. The Divine Comedy - Absent Friends
9. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
10. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
+(honorable mentions)
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Ash - Meltdown
PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her
Magnetic Fields - i
best five concerts of 2004.
1. Coachella
2. New Model Army - Echo
3. New Model Army - Spaceland
4. M83 - KFLA
5.
best five movies released in 2004.
1. Napoleon Dynamite
2. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
3. Kill Bill vol 2
4. Alfie
5. Motorcycle Diaries
+(honorable mentions)
Sean of the Dead
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
THX 1138 - Special Edition
Dodge Ball
A Very Long Engagement
Team America: World Police best five television shows in 2004.
1. Wonderfalls
2. Dead Like Me
3. Penn & Teller's BS
4. The OC
5. Desparate Housewives
+(honorable mentions)
Deadwood
LOST
Veronica Mars
Jack & Bobby best three venues in LA.
1. Troubadour
2. Henry Fonda
3. The Echo best three record shops in LA.
1. Amoeba
2. Sealevel
3. Target best two car radio stations.
1. Indie 103
2. KXLU best online radio station.
1. Little Radio [ http://www.littleradio.com ]
+(honorable mentions)
SomaFM (Indie Pop)
SomaFM (Secret Agent) best video games.
1. DOOM 3 (PC)
2. Feel the Magic XX/XY (Nintendo DS)
3. Half-life 2 (PC)
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